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So after writing my little app to change the .Text hosts (see .Text host limitations, C# and ADO.NET) I remembered the windows HOSTS file... By adding two entries to HOSTS, I was able to get around the problem altogether. I just added
192.168.0.6 www.kindel.com
192.168.0.6 kindel.com
and everything works now. I was afraid this would break DFS, but that still works fine because it appears the DFS client goes to Active Directory first when attempting to parse a UNC name that may contain a DFS root (e.g. \\kindel.com\shares).